Biggest yoga event held in Chinese city of Wuxi

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PTI

June 19, 2016

UPDATED: June 19, 2016 19:25 IST

Beijing, Jun 19 (PTI) About 3,500 people today attended Yoga events in eastern Chinas Wuxi city, considered to be the biggest yoga performance in the region, ahead of the second International Yoga Day to be held in June 21.

The event was hosted at the iconic Wuxi Hollywood Studios as nearly 3,500 people from Wuxi registered and participated in the Yoga celebrations, Prakash Gupta, Consul General of the Indian Consulate in Shanghai said.

The event was organised by the Consulate along with the local government.

"It may be noted that in the Eastern China Region, Wuxi, became the largest scale Yoga performance, given the sheer numbers of the participants that joined in the celebrations today," a statement from the Consulate said.

The Consulate is organising a series of yoga events in eastern China region of Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu to celebrate the UN Yoga Day on June 21. PTI KJV AJR AKJ AJR

This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.

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